The Sixth Man
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4.3 • 272 Ratings
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- £4.99
Publisher Description
The fifth book in the heart-stopping King and Maxwell series, The Sixth Man by David Baldacci will keep pulses racing as Sean King and Michelle Maxwell face their next great challenge.
A dangerous asset, the analyst.
The government’s uniquely talented, top-tier intelligence analyst, Edgar Roy, is arrested for mass murder and locked away in a psychiatric unit. Is he innocent, guilty, insane?
An old friend.
Roy’s lawyer – and King’s former mentor – calls on the pair of former Secret Service agents to look into the case. On the way to the meeting, King and Maxwell discover his dead body.
Web of deceit.
As King and Maxwell dig into Roy’s past, the more they are bombarded with obstacles, half-truths and dead ends that make filtering the facts from fiction nearly impossible.
A rush of terrifying events unfold that will push King and Maxwell to the limit. Could this increasingly deadly case be the one that leaves the duo permanently parted?
The Sixth Man is followed by the sixth and final book in the thrilling series, King and Maxwell.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
At the outset of Baldacci's routine fifth thriller featuring ex Secret Service agents Sean King and Michelle Maxwell (after First Family), the pair, who now work together as private investigators, fly to Maine to meet Ted Bergin, King's old law professor. Bergin has hired King and Maxwell to assist in his defense of Edgar Roy, a U.S. government employee who's been indicted for murdering six people found buried on Roy's Virginia farm. Because for some reason it's a federal case, Roy is incarcerated at a Maine prison. Near their destination, the PIs stop to investigate a broken-down car on the side of the road. Inside is Bergin, who's been shot between the eyes. King and Maxwell probe deeper into the charges against Roy to find the professor's killer, with no help from Roy, who hasn't been talking since his arrest. A fast pace compensates only in part for a cartoonish villain a venal politician and a familiar Washington conspiracy plot.
Customer Reviews
Heart racing! Thrilling! One of the best books I’ve ever read! Baldacci has excelled himself!
A MUST read!
The best of the series so far.
Baldacci uses his novels to express his views on the North American continent as he sees them and is probably largely correct. While The brain was really over the top the concept of the various American agencies working together in harmony towards a common end is an idea that is unlikely unfortunately but the Wall could be one way ahead. An enjoyable read but as with a number of his novels loose ends are all tied up too quickly. The American way?
Split Second
A good read and at times quite tense. It left a few unanswered questions like was the president complicit in allowing a course of action that would have involved the death of American citizens? Was he held to account? The ending felt a bit rushed because of this.